From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "R. W. Rodolico" To: development@lists.ipfire.org Subject: Re: No Xen development for 3.x any more Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2013 22:22:41 -0600 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <2C4D46C9-C1C4-4AFE-9A01-41FDB6527260@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============2249925442887731027==" List-Id: --===============2249925442887731027== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I currently use ipFire under Xen, but this sounds like a whole lot of work just for one or two Xen machines. I'm assuming it can simply be installed by booting an HVM from the ISO? If not (if there would be security holes by doing it), I can simply change to a stand alone. Thank you very much for all the hard work. Rod On 02/07/2013 02:24 PM, Benjamin Schweikert wrote: > Hi, > after thinking a lot about continuing xen as a hypervisor for ipfire 3.x (a= nd after having talked to micha) I decided to not maintain Xen Hypervisor and= Xen Userspace tools any more for now. >=20 > The reasons for this are: > - I will switch from xen to kvm with my systems and so I will not spend a l= ot of time reading xen mailing lists > - The Xen-Sourcecode is not really well "written" and documented > - This leads to a big effort in looking for patches because of the hardened= system > - libvirt is not supported yet > - and finally: I don't have the time to spend several evenings bug fixing a= fter each new released xen version. >=20 > Ben=20 > _______________________________________________ > Development mailing list > Development(a)lists.ipfire.org > http://lists.ipfire.org/mailman/listinfo/development >=20 --=20 R. W. "Rod" Rodolico Daily Data, Inc. POB 140465 Dallas TX 75214-0465 http://www.dailydata.net 214.827.2170 --===============2249925442887731027== Content-Type: text/x-vcard Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="rodo.vcf" MIME-Version: 1.0 YmVnaW46dmNhcmQKZm46Ui4gVy4gUm9kb2xpY28KbjpSb2RvbGljbztSLiBXLgpvcmc6RGFpbHkg RGF0YSwgSW5jLgphZHI6OztQT0IgMTQwNDY1O0RhbGxhcztUWDs3NTIxNC0wNDY1O1VTCmVtYWls O2ludGVybmV0OnJvZG9AZGFpbHlkYXRhLm5ldAp0aXRsZTpQcmVzaWRlbnQKdGVsO3dvcms6MjE0 LjgyNy4yMTcwCnVybDpodHRwOi8vd3d3LmRhaWx5ZGF0YS5uZXQKdmVyc2lvbjoyLjEKZW5kOnZj YXJkCgo= --===============2249925442887731027==--